A chill ran down Emily’s spine as she listened to David’s pitch. He was describing, with impressive enthusiasm, the exact same marketing strategy she had painstakingly formulated. Her hands were clammy. She felt a throbbing behind her eyes. He was speaking with such conviction. It was like watching a mirror image of herself, and it was deeply unsettling.

She sat straighter in her chair. The room seemed to shrink around her.

"Fascinating," she said finally, her tone remarkably level, given the circumstances. "And, where did you get the idea to...?"

Emotion: annoyed

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.59 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.27

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion annoyed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 annoyed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the annoyed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the annoyed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
l0.376
😠0.251
0.249
🤬0.245
fucking0.239
Suppressed:
own-0.352
渗透-0.251
gradually-0.234
unfolding-0.226
超越-0.224